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368 ^ ^> ^> The Motion Picture Industry
ganized effort on the part of social groups to secure the enactment of censorship laws. Some of these groups charged that the country was being flooded with many salacious, criminal, and indecent films. According to Wid} s Y ear Book for 1920, censorship bills were to be "fought in 36 states during the winter of 1921". The National Board of Review, though still functioning as vigorously as ever, continued to be criticized by the more outspoken advocates of legalized censorship. As a step toward meeting these charges against the industry, the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry adopted a number of resolutions, one of which provided for the adoption of the so-called 13 standards which had been adopted previously by the Famous PlayersLasky Corporation. This resolution stated that the producers would refrain from producing motion pictures depicting subjects such as the following:
/T. Sex appeal, white slavery, commercialized vice, illicit love affairs making virtue appear odious and vice attractive, nakedness, suggestive bedroom and bathroom scenes, exciting dances, and unnecessary prolonging of passionate love scenes.
2. Underworld and crime scenes, except when part of an essential conflict between good and evil, and scenes making attractive drunkenness, gambling, use of narcotics and other unnatural practices dangerous to social morality.
3. Stories or scenes ridiculing or deprecating public officers and governmental authority, sects or creeds, and emphasizing bloodshed.
4. Stories or scenes with vulgar portrayals, salacious titles, subtitles, or advertising matter.
In addition the association passed the following resolutions:
That this association records its intention to aid and assist the properly constituted authorities in the prosecution of any producer, distributor, or exhibitor of motion pictures, who shall produce, distribute or exhibit any obscene, salacious, or immoral motion picture in violation of the law, to the end that the recognized public good accomplished by the motion picture shall be preserved and advanced ;
That any member of this association refusing to carry into effect these resolutions shall be subject to expulsion as a member of the association, and further subject to such other penalties as the association may fix;